Quick report
My goals for today were to see how much new snow I could find in the June Mountain backcountry, and look for signs of wind slab and wet loose avalanche problems.
Below 10000 ft, there is very little new snow. Above, a couple of inches have been blown around and mostly deposited on north and east aspects, as well as in the bottoms of gullies. Most other aspects and terrain features have been scoured back down to old melt/freeze surfaces. Scoured surfaces were frozen hard, and were slow to warm up with cool temperatures and light northeast winds.
Solar slopes below 10500 ft have little or no snow.
Skiing on E facing slopes at 11000 ft was just starting to soften around 1130 am, and north aspects were still frozen.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Around freezing
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- Trace to 2"
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Cool and clear, with light to moderate northeast breezes near ridges.
Snowpack
- I observed no signs or evidence of wind slab or wet loose avalanches today. While I found stiff wind deposits on north and east slopes up to 8" thick, they were mostly dense throughout and well bonded to the old layer below. I observed less localized cracking around my skis than I did yesterday.
- I also observed no evidence or signs of wet loose avalanches, although I was early and out of the backcountry by 1230. There is some new snow available on north and east slopes, but it is scattered and dense.